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    "content": "down by internal wrangling and allegations and counter-allegations among its own membership including the staff and the commissioners. When people adopt a practice of stepping aside in other jurisdictions like the United Kingdom, people trust the institutions. You cannot expect me to have some frivolous accusations before the EACC and expect me to step aside. The credibility of an institution is as important so that when an institution like the EACC makes a credible allegation against you, then the weight of public opinion acts against you. We have frivolous, manipulated public institutions that are acting under the direct control and authority of other persons. Those who say that Article 254 agrees that EACC can submit a report to the President are right, but not a confidential report---. That report must undergo certain qualification of processing within the Commission. A Commission decision must be taken. There must be minutes to prove that that report was approved by all commissioners. Every time we produced a report as the commission, every commissioner appended their signature. This shows the mediocrity that the EACC is today. Madam Temporary Speaker, I will also touch on one or two other salient issues. I heard the President talk about social justice. The battle in Kenya today as we turn around a new leaf is about inequality. I would like to inform Sen. Keter that this is one of the most unequal societies in the world and yet there is nothing we are doing about it. Brazil is currently doing something about it; in the last 15 years, Brazil has progressively moved to close the gap between the rich and the poor. Two weeks ago, Frank Knight released a report which stated that Kenya has now 8,500 dollar millionaires and in the next nine years, this would have doubled to about 15,000 dollar millionaires. We are one of the most unequal societies and we do nothing about it. The President referred to monies that they are giving to youth groups. He said that they are supporting about 3,000 youth groups. He refers to that as social justice. If that is what social justice is, then social justice has lost its traditional meaning. Social justice is an extremely controversial phenomenon in the human rights discourse. Social justice is to ensure that those who are worse off become better off before those who are better off become well off. That is the social justice phenomenon. In other words, if you built a superhighway to Thika, you must build a superhighway in Lamu. Social justice is not when he talks about giving youth groups some seed grants. Who is advising these people? Do you have human rights actors in your team who will tell you what social justice is all about so that you can take such an important paradigm that has been referred to variously in our Constitution and just undermine it? You say that you are giving the youth support and that is social justice. When you go to Kibera and do a few things here and there, you call that social justice. A social justice programme must be deliberate, empirical and scientific. We must know why we are going to Kibera and Mandera. It must take poverty levels and indices. It should not be done for political public relations to demonstrate that Raila has done nothing in Kibera since he was a Member of Parliament. Raila has even built roads in some of your counties. Madam Temporary Speaker, finally, the issue about apology---"
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